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Richard Susskind

Pioneers and Pathfinders

CHAPTER

What Sparked Your Interest in AI and Law?

When I was an undergraduate studying law at Glasgow University and I had the opportunity in place of one of my final papers to write a dissertation, my core subject then was jurisprudence legal philosophy. The question I was quite interested in was how can technology in the future affect the work of judges. So I wrote a dissertation in 1981 to 1982 called computers in the judicial process. From 80 to 80 sector, the doctorate on the subject of AI and law specifically expert systems and law. And I'm increasingly thinking when you see the pace of change in AI that much of the thinking I did in the early 80s will bear fruit in this decade.

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